Monday, December 2, 2013

December

Dear Family and Friends,

First off HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!!!! I hope you have a great Birthday!

Second, GOOD LUCK PRESTON!!! You will do great in the Christmas Classic!

Well I have officially survived the first change of
the mission field. Im still in the same area with the same companion. So
yeah, nothing new. Changes are every six weeks. And each change you
have the chance to be moved to another sector with a new companion. But
my mission president likes to leave you in one place for awhile. There
are some missionaries here who have been in their sector for almost a
year. My companion, Elder Schildan, Iis starting his fourth change here
which by the end of this one will make 6 months here. As a missionary we
have about 17 changes before we are sent home and the next one is the
second week of January.

Mom you wanted to know what a normal day for us is
like, so here you go. We get up at 730 excercise and eat breakfast and
get ready. Then at 9 we start study, an hour for each one, personal,
companioniship, language. Then we have lunch at 130 with a member and
are out working in the field till 930. And to end the night we go to bed
at 1130. That is a normal day, our prosilyting differs but is pretty
much the same. Walk, teach, door shut on us, walk some more.

My Thanksgiving was great, i had a little bit of
rice and a hamburger patty. We didnt get dinner or anything. We just
cooked some rice because we didnt have much food. So Thanksgiving was a
little different this year. Im glad you all had a great time eating and
playing games.

The mission is deffinately not an easy thing. We couldnt get into any doors on Saturday and Friday and Sunday
we got into one each day. Things are going slow but we have the trust
of the ward and are helping the ward grow. This week we had the highest
attendance ive every seen, 65 people, with about 3 or 4 of them were our
investigators. So things are looking up.

This week i did some things i didnt think i would do
in my first six weeks as a missionary. I gave three blessings, all in
spanish, two were blessings of comfort and one was a blessing of
healing. When we asked them who they wanted to give them the blessing
they pointed and said HIM, since nobody here can say my name. It was a
cool experience and i know i had the lords help because i wasnt that
nervous and said the things i needed to. Then on Sunday
i taught the Gospel Doctrines class. At the beginning of class my
companion said ¨My companion is substituting today for the sister¨, then
sat down. It was a little nerve racking but everyone said i did good
and they understood me. Even the investigator there said that she
understood.

So yeah, Everything here is going good. Its hot and
the sun just stares down at you. The bugs are coming out and i found two
cockroaches in the shower this morning when i went to shower. But yeah
everything is going great and i cant believe its already December.